黄仁宇在世界史学界是个独行侠式的特殊人物，上世纪八十年代中期，他的英译中本《万历十五年》在国内出版时，一开始并没有在主流学术界引起重视，此书出版后不久，我曾就教于一位史学前辈如何评价此书，那位师长淡淡地说了一句，那个人不过是个解放前的记者而己。然而，二十年来，黄仁宇在中国青年一代中找到了越来越多的知音。他的作品是书店里销售最畅的历史著作之一，他所倡导的那种历史叙事风格，他对历史人物的多面性 [ … ]

Nowadays people may admire China’s economy, but not Chinese creativity. Chinese architecture and art, music and movies are derivative, and many a Chinese enterprise is merely a carbon copy of an A [ … ]

Invoking the feelings inspired by Chinese calligraphy, this video called “Dunhuang”, after the city which was once a major stop on the ancient Silk Road with a rich Buddhist heritage, uses the mov [ … ]

Thinking about the misunderstandings which happen between speakers of US and UK English? Well it also happens with reading the Chinese Characters among Chinese and Japanese (even though the langua [ … ]

Detail of a Ming Dynasty scroll by Zhu Yunming in the cursive script.

The Times recently published an article about China’s effort to manage the vast number of characters in the Chinese language. [ … ]